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  1. adam8 started following Swann DVR8-4000 Hard Drive Replacement
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    Get a Hikvision 7608 DVR and the 2142 dome cameras. 2.8mm for larger overview areas and 4mm for closer up places, like #3 you have facing the door. POE switch is built into NVR. If you wanted to run everything into attic to a switch then down through a single CAT 5 cable to the NVR, you could do that too.
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    ericz, This should work. I did the same thing at a relative's house. Detached garage has cameras going to a POE switch in the garage. POE switch plugs into a TP-Link powerline ethernet adapter. The other adapter goes in the house near the DVR and then plugs into the DVR and it works great. There's something to do with the phase or branch that the circuits are on for the powerline over ethernet adapters to work right. I guess if you have some Zyxel's and they work, you should be good to go.
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    I can access the cameras directly, but not through the NVR in Safari. Takes me to the login page with the maroon box but says plug in not installed, even though it is.....
  5. adam8
    I have a Swann DVR8-4000 Tru Blue model DVR with 8 channels, 6 are active. It has a Western Digital 1Tb drive in it. The system began freezing up, despite being set to auto-reboot itself every day at 1AM, which rendered it basically useless. I talked with Swann Technical support, which was basically useless as well. They were suggesting that the power supply was bad, and a number of other items that are unrelated to the problem. The freezing / crashing problem seems to decrease in frequency when the hard drive is reformatted. I decided to replace the hard drive with a 2TB Western Digital hard drive from Best Buy. I installed it into the DVR and it was not recognized. I formatted it using my computer, and reinstalled it and it recognized it as a 1800GB drive, which looked right. A few hours later, the error went off and it was no longer recognized. I removed it from the DVR and it works fine in the computer. The old hard drive also worked when reinstalled back into the DVR. Any ideas on how to properly format the hard drive to make it work in the DVR?? Thanks in advance.
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